1. Annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America
   "Polygonum orientale adds dramatic height to cottage gardens";
   - prince's-feather, princess feather, kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate, prince's-plume

Type of: subshrub, suffrutex

Part of: genus Polygonum, Polygonum

Encyclopedia: Polygonum orientale